NFS Contracts in London

Network File System (NFS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring NFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NFS over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 389 456
Rank change year-on-year +33 +67 +80
Contract jobs citing NFS 4 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.031% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 0.28% 0.97% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 14
10th Percentile - - £436
25th Percentile £625 £281 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £300 £585
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -48.72% -16.43%
75th Percentile £675 £388 £617
90th Percentile - - £758
England median daily rate £650 £325 £583
% change year-on-year +100.00% -44.25% +2.96%

All System Software Skills
London

NFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,442 1,859 2,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.00% 10.55% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 1,343 2,178
10th Percentile £270 £250 £244
25th Percentile £413 £388 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +2.04%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 34 32
10th Percentile £22.50 £17.14 £21.39
25th Percentile £22.88 £20.50 £25.81
Median hourly rate £26.45 £23.15 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% -61.42% +95.12%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £53.88 £49.23 £84.80
England median hourly rate £29.50 £22.23 £50.00
% change year-on-year +32.73% -55.55% +150.00%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for NFS in London

NFS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NFS in London.

Daily rate trend for NFS in London

NFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NFS in London.

Hourly rate trend for NFS in London

NFS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the London region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +5 3 £650 +68.83% 5
NFS
England

NFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Administrator
2 2 (50.00%) Database Specialist
2 2 (50.00%) DBA
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Data Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Informatica Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) Replication
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (25.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Scorecard
3 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) AWK
2 2 (50.00%) sed
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) GPFS
2 1 (25.00%) Veritas File System
2 1 (25.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Control-M
2 1 (25.00%) Netcool
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) QRadar
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) VMware